Dr. M was telling me
he and Dr. V were like
'the process of self-creation and
self-preservation of the organism'
blah-blah-blah
is 'autopoeisis' is that how you pronounce it?
they describe life as a process in which
living sysss-tems pro-DUCE themselves
can you believe it?
the dupes?!?
they give us all so much credit!!
We're just a bunch of overgrown apes,
maroons!!
***
Just as every word obtains its meaning from the sentence,
and the sentence obtains its meaning from the (con-)text
in which it is set,
behavior obtains its meaning as mad or normal only
in the interactional frame in which it is set.
If we want to explain and understand madnesses,
and not only that of alleged referees,
we have to ask ourselves in what context
we or others
can observe them
and provide them with a diagnostic label,
and which of these context variables we can
imagine away.
If we observe madness as something isolated,
we run the risk of dealing with it like
"Christian Morgenstern and his knee"
who said --
"a knee goes through the world all alone.
It is a knee, nothing else."
***
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